Well, another voice needs to be heard, lest someone stumble on this thread and think all Mudcatters agree.

I hate what Tibbets did and am amazed that he lived such an apparently long and untroubled life. But he was only the trigger man, the entire U. S. government was behind his act. It was deplorable. 100,000 lives, most of them civilians, lost in one fell swoop.

This was a perverted experiment, and there is credible documentation to this affect. I'll dig out the article I use to make this case and transcribe it later.

SRS